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Hillary Dawkins

4 accepted papers

2025

When Detection Fails: The Power of Fine-Tuned Models to Generate Human-Like Social Media Text

ACL 2025finding

Detecting AI-generated text is a difficult problem to begin with; detecting AI-generated text on social media is made even more difficult due to the short text length and informal, idiosyncratic language of the internet. It is nonetheless important to tackle this problem, as social media represents…

2024

Adaptable Moral Stances of Large Language Models on Sexist Content: Implications for Society and Gender Discourse

EMNLP 2024main

This work provides an explanatory view of how LLMs can apply moral reasoning to both criticize and defend sexist language. We assessed eight large language models, all of which demonstrated the capability to provide explanations grounded in varying moral perspectives for both critiquing and endorsin…

2024

Projective Methods for Mitigating Gender Bias in Pre-trained Language Models

COLING 2024main

Mitigation of gender bias in NLP has a long history tied to debiasing static word embeddings. More recently, attention has shifted to debiasing pre-trained language models. We study to what extent the simplest projective debiasing methods, developed for word embeddings, can help when applied to BERT…

2022

Region-dependent temperature scaling for certainty calibration and application to class-imbalanced token classification

ACL 2022short

Certainty calibration is an important goal on the path to interpretability and trustworthy AI. Particularly in the context of human-in-the-loop systems, high-quality low to mid-range certainty estimates are essential. In the presence of a dominant high-certainty class, for instance the non-entity cl…